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Last week, the firm was quoted in a Bustle story, entitled A Fake Porn App Lets People Put Celebrities’ Faces In Videos & Here’s Why It’s So Dangerous. The article discussed the legal implications of a new phenomenon revealed in a recent Motherboard’s article of new applications using artificial intelligence for face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers’…

For the past decade, states have been battling with online retailers in state legislatures, the courts and in Congress over when a state may require an online retailer to collect sales tax. At the center of the debate was the Supreme Court’s decision in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 504 U. S. 298, 311 (1992) which…

The Federal Trade Commission and the State of Nevada have filed a lawsuit against the operators of the revenge porn site MyEx.com under both the FTC Act and Nevada’s anti-revenge porn law. This is only the second time the FTC has acted against revenge porn sites. The Complaint is a major statement from the…

Beginning in the 1980’s with the OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data and the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (Convention 108), European governments sought to establish a legal regime governing data and data flows. This ultimately found their…

Today I received the letter below from David Warrington of LeClair Ryan on behalf of Xcentric Ventures LLC, which operates RipoffReport.com. According to Warrington, RipoffReport is in the pre-complaint stage of a claim based on alleged anti-competitive busines practices and a conspiracy to damage the business of Xcenetric in its operations of the RipoffReport.com website…

How to Tame the Tech Giants with Open Market Institute’s Kevin Carty LISTEN / DOWNLOAD Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have all come under scrutiny for anticompetitive behavior and market domination, with increasing calls that it may be necessary to break up one or all of these entities (see image below). This debate was fueled…

One of the ongoing debates about disruptors, from Uber to Airbnb, is the degree to which they are a new service or simply an existing service repackaged to escape regulation. A McGill University study of Airbnb rentals in New York City comes down strongly in the latter category. The study, The High Cost of Short-Term Rentals in New…

FTC and Influencer Marketing with Jeffrey A. Greenbaum LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Jeffrey A. Greenbaum, Managing Partner of Frankfurt Kurnit, returns to discuss the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) increased focus on Influencer Marketing. Topics Covered State of the FTC Honored that @POTUS has expressed his intent to nominate me as a judge on the U.S. Court of Federal…

The North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”), is a trilateral trade agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States that was signed in 1992 and came into force in 1994. Upon coming into office, President Trump has called for the renegotiation of the agreement and is threatening to withdraw altogether. The sixth of seven negotiation…

Bitcoin, Blockchain Hype v Reality with Angela C. Walch LISTEN/DOWNLOAD 2017 was heralded as the year of Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology, only to be greeted in the new year with a major drop in Bitcoin value. What is the substance behind the hype? What is Bitcoin and Blockchain? What is its promise? What are its…

Robert Sikoryak and His Comic Terms and Conditions Note: Our interview with Stan Stahl has been postponed due to a death of a colleague. Instead, we will be airing our previously recorded but not yet aired discussion with Robert Sikoryak. Listen Live or Download Here We continue our Miami Book Fair author series by airing…

The Internet Association, the Software & Information Industry Association, the Information Technology Industry Council and the App Association have released a joint statement of principles for the framework of federal data breach legislation. They stress: Without a uniform national standard for data security and breach notification, the current patchwork is likely to grow even more complex…